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    Two rangers have spent over 10 years investigating unexplained phenomena across Navajo Nation.

    By Steve Helling
    Oct. 25, 2022

The Navajo Rangers patrol and protect the 27,000-square-mile reservation spanning portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. In 2000, Stanley Milford Jr. and Jonathan Redbird Dover — whose job descriptions typically included land protection, search and rescue and evacuations — received a new, intriguing assignment: investigating reports of paranormal activity on the Navajo Nation. 

In what’s described as “the real-life X-Files,” Milford and Dover started looking into some of the most mysterious and terrifying phenomena in Navajo history, starting with dozens of Bigfoot sightings. Then the pair realized something unsettling: As Bigfoot sightings increased in regularity, so did UFO sightings. Finally, after hearing reports about a skinwalker — a harmful shape-shifting witch that can take the form of any animal — Milford and Dover found disturbing evidence that raised more questions than answers. During 10 years of conducting paranormal investigations, the pair face their fears in their relentless pursuit of the truth. What do these strange sightings on the Navajo reservation ultimately reveal? 

Jonathan Witnesses An Orb | Unsolved Mysteries V3E5The former ranger recalls a night he can't forget.

Jonathan Redbird Dover is not merely an investigator — he actually witnessed a UFO with his grandparents when he was young. Here, he describes what he saw then. 

Evidence of Bigfoot

When hundreds of witnesses reported seeing Bigfoot on the reservation, each giving remarkably similar descriptions, Milford and Dover began a thorough investigation, measuring footprints and reviewing surveillance videos. Still, the answers remain elusive. What is this creature that so many people have seen, but no one has been able to identify? 

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Photo of damage done to the side of a trailer in Upper Fruitland, NM, provided by Brenda Harris.
This trailer in Upper Fruitland sustained multiple attacks from Bigfoot.  
Footprint found in the dirt/sand provided by Brenda Harris, horizontal measurement.
Bigfoot tracks in the sand, provided by Brenda Harris.
A deep footprint found in dried mud, provided by Brenda Harris.
Footprint in dried mud, provided by Rangers.
Footprint found in the dirt/sand beside a male shoe size 11, provided by Brenda Harris, vertical measurement .
Complete Bigfoot tracks in the mud, provided by Brenda Harris.
Smeared Bigfoot footprint in dried riverbank in New Mexico, provided by Brenda Harris.
Bigfoot footprint in grass, provided by Brenda Harris.
Dead grass “footprint” next to a female foot for scale.
Plaster cast of bigfoot footprint, provided by Brenda Harris.
Photo of a bigfoot handprint on the window of a trailer in Upper Fruitland, NM, provided by Brenda Harris. Photo taken from outside the trailer.
Brenda using her hands to show the scale of the handprint.
Same window, the following day, showing how far off the ground the window is.
Photo of a bigfoot handprint/fist print in the mud, provided by Brenda Harris.
This fur was found during the Rangers’ investigation in Upper Fruitland. 
Hoss Lors captured photos showcasing a series of fireball-like lights being dropped onto the side of Satan Butte.  
A zoomed-out view of the fireballs that Hoss observed from his porch.
Several fireballs captured in a photo at once over Satan Butte by Hoss Lors.
An image from a trail camera, provided by Brenda Harris.
Image from a trail camera that shows the silhouette of a large bipedal creature, provided by Brenda Harris.
The trail camera caught two photos in the span of one minute. 

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See more bonus material from “Paranormal Rangers,” including terrifying audio clips of what resident Brenda Harris believes to be the calls of Bigfoot in the New Mexico forest. 

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